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Elk population is exploding in US National Parks. Many elk are afflicted with chronic wasting disease, their version of mad cow, so they can't be moved. Park managers & conservationists are mulling over the best way to thin herds: shooting or predation?

The Komodo National Park in eastern Indonesia, home to the famed komodo dragon, is also home to an underwater world of brightly colored corals that provide a home for numerous invertebrates and fish. So beautiful and diverse is this ecosystem that it was

National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....

The traditional parks model of closing off areas and keeping people out simply may not work in Africa, where human demands on the land are great. Instead, what's needed is an approach that finds ways to enable people and animals to co-exist.

A dangerous and misguided rider has been attached to the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2009 (H.R.627)&#8236;&#8234;&#8234;&#8236;. With this rider, the National Park Service would be forced to allow loaded guns in parks

There has been an "unprecedented" surge in elephant poaching in one of Kenya's principal national parks since a large-scale ivory sale late last year, which gave a renewed boost to the international ivory market.
The sale was of more than 100 tonnes

A new national park for Far Eastern leopards, the world's most endangered big cat, is to be set up in the Primorye Territory in Russia's Far East this year, a local administration source said on Friday.

Brumby supporters fear that if the general public begins to view the animals as pests, authorities may be encouraged to use aerial shooting of horses to reduce numbers.
Management of Victoria's Alpine National Park brumby population is primarily done

Of those, almost 90 per cent were legally killed by trophy hunters, many of them Americans with guide-outfitters, and the rest by various means, including road-and rail-kills, poaching, trapping and shooting the bears for posing a threat or nuisance

Feb 25 At least 24 rhinoceros fell prey to poachers in the past two years in Kaziranga national park and adjacent areas in Assam, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
In reply to a question, Environment minister S Regupathy said,"eighteen and six rhinos